Senior Golfer 11 - Open your stance (Video) - by Pete Styles
Senior Golfer 11 - Open your stance (Video) - by Pete Styles

You sometimes see on the PGA Tour how the commentator talking about these young whip snapper professionals are clearing their hips and turning through the ball, and firing their left side and a lot of things. For golfers of a certain age that's actually very physically difficult movement to do. The movement we're discussing here is how somebody like Rory Mcilroy body is at the target at the point of impact. He's twisted his hips and belt buckle around so much, his hips are very, very open as he strikes the golf ball. Now if you're also a golfer of a certain age, you might actually find that really difficult to open up, and if you did open up, you'd lose control and connectivity with your hands and arm actually hit the ball far worse.

So what you might want to work on is making sure that your alignment is good or maybe even slightly left with your alignment. You certainly wanted to avoid aiming right with your alignment. Any golfer that has their alignment closed to the target at any age is really restricting how much they can turn their hips through to target because your hips are already set in a closed position, so you often get a bit stuck causing blocks that are not right and often just snap hooks down the left-hand side because you can't clear your hips well enough. If I just swap places and bring David into the mat here. So you're going to set yourself up to this golf ball and then just let your hips and your feet open up a little bit. Turn the left toe back slightly; feel that you're aiming slightly down the left-hand side of that camera lens which would be our target.

And you can appreciate here it goes how the left toe is back and the left toe is open. And that has allowed the hip and thigh to open up a little bit. So if David was now to swing at the top of his back swing, come down towards the impact over, but don't hit the golf ball. Now open the hips up as you come through impact and getting through to a nice impact position, a little more body weight on the left-hand side as you come through impact there, and then allow that right foot to come through. And because we pre-set the hip and the left knee a little more open, it's far easy to turn through and get round to the big fall follow through position that would happen at full speed, rather than if that left toe was in front, shut down and it would feel quite restricted. So if you open up your hips a little bit, open up your feet a little bit set up, aim a bit down the left-hand side encourages a faster follow through movement, a little bit more club at speed and power as well.

 2012-09-18

You sometimes see on the PGA Tour how the commentator talking about these young whip snapper professionals are clearing their hips and turning through the ball, and firing their left side and a lot of things. For golfers of a certain age that's actually very physically difficult movement to do. The movement we're discussing here is how somebody like Rory Mcilroy body is at the target at the point of impact. He's twisted his hips and belt buckle around so much, his hips are very, very open as he strikes the golf ball. Now if you're also a golfer of a certain age, you might actually find that really difficult to open up, and if you did open up, you'd lose control and connectivity with your hands and arm actually hit the ball far worse.

So what you might want to work on is making sure that your alignment is good or maybe even slightly left with your alignment. You certainly wanted to avoid aiming right with your alignment. Any golfer that has their alignment closed to the target at any age is really restricting how much they can turn their hips through to target because your hips are already set in a closed position, so you often get a bit stuck causing blocks that are not right and often just snap hooks down the left-hand side because you can't clear your hips well enough. If I just swap places and bring David into the mat here. So you're going to set yourself up to this golf ball and then just let your hips and your feet open up a little bit. Turn the left toe back slightly; feel that you're aiming slightly down the left-hand side of that camera lens which would be our target.

And you can appreciate here it goes how the left toe is back and the left toe is open. And that has allowed the hip and thigh to open up a little bit. So if David was now to swing at the top of his back swing, come down towards the impact over, but don't hit the golf ball. Now open the hips up as you come through impact and getting through to a nice impact position, a little more body weight on the left-hand side as you come through impact there, and then allow that right foot to come through. And because we pre-set the hip and the left knee a little more open, it's far easy to turn through and get round to the big fall follow through position that would happen at full speed, rather than if that left toe was in front, shut down and it would feel quite restricted. So if you open up your hips a little bit, open up your feet a little bit set up, aim a bit down the left-hand side encourages a faster follow through movement, a little bit more club at speed and power as well.